Zdroj: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 206
Samuel Johnson: Citáty anglicky (strana 11)
Samuel Johnson byl anglický spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.
Samuel Johnson:
418
citátů
306
lajků
“English superiority and American obedience.”
As quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55786-664-3 (1994), by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 252–256.
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.”
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 1; comparable to: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue", Thomas Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure
“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Winter, An Ode. The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787), p. 355
“To a poet nothing can be useless.”
Samuel Johnson
kniha
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10
Zdroj: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 111
“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”
Life of Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler
No. 86 (12 January 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
Varianta: Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Vol. II, p. 406
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson
“Blown about with every wind of criticism.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“The insolence of wealth will creep out.”
April 18, 1778, p. 400
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
1754
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Samuel Johnson
kniha
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth